![]() ![]() Caught in the act by Philomena’s brother, Bradford is issued an ultimatum-a duel or marry her.īradford refuses to duel with a gravely-ill man and offers marriage. Something about the mysterious woman enthralls him, and he steals a moonlit kiss. After a three-year absence, he returns home but doesn’t recognize his first love when he stumbles upon her hiding in a shadowy arbor during a ball. When the woman he loves dies, Bradford leaves England and its painful memories behind. Betrayed once by Bradford, Viscount Kingsley, as well as scarred from a horrific fire, Philomena entertains no notions of a love-match. If she fails to acquire a husband, her future is perilous. A Rogue's Scandalous Wish by Collette Cameron® A Historical Regency Romance A marriage offered out of obligation… …an acceptance compelled by desperation.Īt the urging of her dying brother, Philomena Pomfrett reluctantly agrees to attend a London Season. ![]()
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![]() This can lead to confusion for new readers who mi ght wonder why Odysseus doesn’t show up until about fifty pages into his own story, but, as with the original work, it does allow the elements of the story to come together smoothly in the end with Odysseus’ son Telemachus bookending the tale. ![]() Hinds’ adaptation takes the more direct route, starting where Homer’s poem started and moving straight through without cutting out elements, other than when he substitutes action drawings for words. Without that the tales are still interesting, but not as easy to follow. That said, both works also assume a basic knowledge of who Odysseus is, what the Trojan War was, and who the Greek gods are. Both works also feature fantastic art, drawings which suck readers into the story and use the comic medium’s unique blend of words and art to the best of their abilities. ![]() ![]() Candlewick, October 2010, ISBN 978-0-7636-4266-2īoth adaptations take Homer’s work seriously, highlighting the capricious nature of the gods, the frustrations of Odysseus and his crew, and the dangers of their voyage. ![]() ![]() Sanja agrees to teach Lelek and to travel with her, as long as Lelek stops cheating people. ![]() Lelek kidnaps Sanja because she wants Sanja to teach her how to use a sword, showing a somewhat callous disregard for others in how she uses her magic. They end up traveling together, learning about each other and the world around them, and the result is a charming story full of lovely artwork, diverse world-building, and gals becoming much more than pals. When someone catches Lelek cheating them and causes a scene, she witnesses Sanja wielding a sword in the resulting chaos and kidnaps her. ![]() Witchlight by Jessi Zabarsky is a cute adventure graphic novel about Sanja, a girl with troublesome brothers and a family that doesn’t understand her, and Lelek, a witch trying to survive on her own as she journeys across the countryside. ![]() ![]() Ecce homo / translated by Walter Kaufmann edited, with commentary, by Walter Kaufmann Instantiates Label On the genealogy of morals, by Friedrich Nietzsche translated by Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Literary form non fiction Nature of contents bibliography Summary The great philosopher's major work on ethics, along with ECCE HOMO, Nietzche's remarkable review of his life and works.-Publisher Member ofĬataloging source JBO 1844-1900 Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Dewey number 170/.8 Index index present LC call number Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.Ecce homo / translated by Walter Kaufmann edited, with commentary, by Walter Kaufmann Title variation Ecce homo Creator Label On the genealogy of morals Title On the genealogy of morals Statement of responsibility by Friedrich Nietzsche translated by Walter Kaufmann and R.J. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even if she could bring herself to love her sworn enemy, how can she refuse her duty to kill him? With time running out, Nyx must decide what is more important: the future of her kingdom, or the man she was never supposed to love. The strangely charming lord beguiles her, and his castle-a shifting maze of magical rooms-enthralls her.Īs Nyx searches for a way to free her homeland by uncovering Ignifex's secrets, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Her plan? Seduce him, destroy his enchanted castle, and break the nine-hundred-year-old curse he put on her people.īut Ignifex is not at all what Nyx expected. Still, on her seventeenth birthday, Nyx abandons everything she's ever known to marry the all-powerful, immortal Ignifex. With no choice but to fulfill her duty, Nyx resents her family for never trying to save her and hates herself for wanting to escape her fate. And since birth, she has been in training to kill him. Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom-all because of a foolish bargain struck by her father. ![]() ![]() ![]() But she just felt so 2 dimensional.Īnd Alec.good god, he was just all over the place. ![]() Okay, I guess Luna was consistent enough. I'm a big Meghan Quinn fan, AND I very very rarely DNF a book.but I couldn't make it past 2/3 in. ![]() While Luna is torn between family loyalty and her own feelings, Alec wonders if he might have been wrong about love and marriage all along… Read more But as they bicker over color swatches and mood boards, they find themselves fighting something else: their growing mutual attraction. But when his recently engaged brother begs him to participate in The Wedding Game, Alec grudgingly picks up a glue gun and prepares for some family bonding.īoth fierce competitors, Luna and Alec clash on national TV as harsh words and glitter fly with abandon. So it's only natural that Luna would convince her brother and his husband-to-be to compete on The Wedding Game, a "do-it-yourself" TV show, for the title of Top DIY Wedding Expert.Īs a jaded divorce lawyer, Alec Baxter scoffs at weddings and romance. Luna Rossi is a veritable crafting genius-she can bedazzle and bead so hard her Etsy site is one of the hottest in the world. USA Today bestselling author Meghan Quinn's latest bauble is the charming story of a crafting queen battling a jaded divorce lawyer on a wedding reality show. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’d been surrounded by jaded high society women my entire life. I am sure you understand why you may not be Ronan’s favorite topic.” She glanced away with an awkward laugh and waved the hand holding her fork. When she shifted, I realized she was growing uncomfortable beneath my stare. She was a natural beauty, but fakeness oozed from her like cloying perfume. She looked at me like she was seeing me for the first time and feigned an apologetic pout. The awkward silence must have alerted Nadia to the fact she’d hit a nerve-not that she didn’t already know. If they had such a strong relationship, where was she last night when he was bleeding out? I stared at her impassively even as her words stomped on my heart: the fact my papa was the one who indirectly shot Ronan, and the inexplicable detail Nadia had been with him yesterday. I cannot believe that boy had the nerve to shoot him.” Then she added flippantly, “Though we all know it was Alexei who hired him.” Aloof, she rubbed a liberal amount of butter on her pancakes. “I came to check on Ronan after what happened yesterday. Nadia’s perfect brows furrowed in concern. “I’m sure your French cook is just as good as Polina.” “So what brings you here, Nadia, other than to give gifts?” Gianna sipped her tea. ![]() Nadia smiled before saying, “God, I am famished.” Without another word, she began to load her plate with the bliny that weren’t rainbow-colored, apparently oblivious to the tension in the air. The only thing Ronan would do with a scarf was strangle someone with it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Private insurers will no longer be required to cover the costs of testing. Once the public health emergency ends, Covid-19 tests – both home tests and laboratory tests – will be subject to cost sharing, in which costs of services are divided between the patient and their insurance plan. “It’s critical that people have the ability to test and then isolate or stay at home if they test positive.” “People should go out and ensure that they have tests available, because what we know about Covid is it’s quite pernicious, and clearly, people can get it more than once,” said Mara Aspinall, a professor at Arizona State University’s College of Health Solutions and a testing and diagnostics expert. Check the agency’s website before throwing them out. The site is still up and running, with four free tests available to any household that hasn’t ordered since December.Īlso, the US Food and Drug Administration has extended the expiration date for many home tests beyond what is printed on the box. The Biden administration launched in January 2022 to allow US households to order free Covid-19 test kits to be delivered to home. REUTERS/Hannah Beier Hannah Beier/ReutersĬDC signs off on additional Covid-19 booster doses for certain people ![]() Mayank Amin draws the Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) booster vaccine targeting BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron sub variants at Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 8, 2022. ![]() ![]() ![]() She felt as if she had lived a long, long time. The fact was, however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not been thinking things about grown-up people and the world they belonged to. It would have been an old look for a child of twelve, and Sara Crewe was only seven. ![]() She was such a little girl that one did not expect to see such a look on her small face. She sat with her feet tucked under her, and leaned against her father, who held her in his arm, as she stared out of the window at the passing people with a queer old-fashioned thoughtfulness in her big eyes. "Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares." ![]() Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor. ![]() ![]() ![]() The quote The People's Stick, condemning tyranny imposed with the rationale that the state represents "the people" as in Marxism, originates in this book: ![]() Marshall Shatz writes that Statism and Anarchy "helped to lay the foundations of a Russian anarchist movement as a separate current within the revolutionary stream". Statism and Anarchy was the only one of Bakunin's major anarchist works to be written in Russian and was primarily aimed at a Russian audience, with an initial print run of 1,200 copies printed in Switzerland and smuggled into Russia. Written in the summer of 1873, the key themes of the work are the likely impact on Europe of the Franco-Prussian war and the rise of the German Empire, Bakunin's view of the weaknesses of the Marxist position and an affirmation of anarchism. Statism and Anarchy ( Russian: Государственность и анархия, Gosudarstvennost' i anarkhiia, literally "Statehood and Anarchy") was the last work by the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin. ![]() |